Fantasy 07

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Tangled Web UK: New Fantasy Titles 07

Kate Elliott Spirit Gate Pbk published January 2007 by Orbit at Ł12.99 ISBN: 1841495999

Kate Elliott, author of the acclaimed Crown of Stars Series, begins a new politically-charged epic journey through a world torn apart by warfare and betrayal.
For generations the Guardians ruled the Hundred, but these unearthly beings have faded from human sight and no longer exert their will on the world. Only the reeves, patrolling from the skies, still represent the Guardians’ power. But there is a corruption in the land that not even they can control, and fanatics are devastating villages, towns and cities, slaughtering all who oppose them.
Outlanders Anji and Mai are fleeing their homeland with a company of dedicated warriors. On reaching the Hundred, they form an alliance with Reeve Joss, and determine to stand against the devouring horde. But, as region after region slips into chaos, a young woman sworn to the Goddess may be all that keeps them from annihilation ...
'Promises to be a truly epic fantasy' Publishers Weekly
Praise For Kate Elliott:
‘A gripping and enthralling fantasy epic’ The Times
‘A compelling yarn’ SFX
‘Enthralling adventure’ LocusThousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Steven Erikson The Bonehunters Pbk published April 2007 by Bantam at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0553813153

A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen
The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha’ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y’Ghatan and under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy. For it was here that the Empire’s greatest champion, Dassem Ultor, was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled. A place of foreboding, its smell is of death.
But elsewhere, agents of a far greater conflict have made their opening moves. The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon, a schism threatens and sides must be chosen. Whatever each god decides, the ground rules have changed, irrevocably, terrifyingly, and the first blood spilled will be in the mortal world.
A world which contains a host of characters, familiar and new, including Heboric Ghost Hands, the god-possessed Apsalar, Cutter, once a thief now a killer, the extraordinary warrior called Karsa Orlong and the two wanderers Icarium and Mappo - each searching for such a fate as they might fashion with their own hands, guided by their own will. If only the gods would leave them alone. But now that knives have been unsheathed, the gods are disinclined to be kind. There shall be war, war in the heavens. And the prize? Nothing less than existence itself...
Here is the stunning new chapter in Steven Erikson’s magnificent Malazan Book of the Fallen - hailed as an epic of the imagination and acknowledged as a fantasy classic in the making.
'A master of long and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient epics' salon.com
‘The kind of epic narrative that will have you scrambling for more.’ Stephen R. Donaldson
‘Some of the most febrile and Imaginative myth-making ever... each new novel moves from strength to strength, improving on what has gone before... this series has clearly established itself as the most significant work of epic fantasy since Donaldson’s Chronicles of Thomas Covens.’ SF Site
‘Give me the evocation of a rich, complex and yet ultimately unknowable other world, with a compelling suggestion of intricate history and mythology and lore. Give me mystery amid the grand narrative ... Give me a world in which every sea hides a crumbled Atlantis, every twin has a tale to tell, every broken blade is a silent legacy of struggles unknown. Give me, In other words, the fantasy work of Steven Erikson... a master of lost and forgotten epochs, a weaver of ancient spin,’ Salon.com
‘Like the archaeologist that he is, Erikson continues to delve into the history and ruins of the Malazan Empire, in the process revealing unforeseen riches and annals that defy expectation ... this is true myth in the making, a drawing upon fantasy to recreate histories and legends as rich as any found within our culture.’ Interzone
‘Rare is the writer who so fluidly combines a sense of mythic power and depth of world with fully realized characters and thrilling action, but Steven Erikson manages it spectacularly.’ Michael a. Stackpole

About The Author
Archaeologist and anthropologist Steven Erikson is a graduate of the celebrated Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first fantasy novel, the critically acclaimed Gardens of the Moon, marked the opening chapter of his epic sequence, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. It is published by Bantam, as are the acclaimed subsequent volumes, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice and House of Chains. The thrilling fifth instalment in this remarkable story is Midnight Tides. Steven Erikson lives in Canada. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Ian Esslemont Night of Knives Published June 2007 by Bantam at Ł14.99 ISBN: 0593057813
The debut fantasy novel from the co-creator of Steven Erikson's world of Malaz

‘Waves twice the height of the masts rolled past, foaming with ice and rime. Then Murl saw it, a dazzling sapphire figure breaching the surface: helmed, armoured, a tall lance of jagged ice couched at the hip. Its mount seemed half beast and half roiling wave. He fancied it turned a dark inscrutable gaze his way through cheek-guards of frozen scale. Then, just as suddenly, the Rider dived, returning to the churning sea. Another broached the surface further out. Then another…
... The Riders cared nothing for them. They were here for another reason, answering some inhuman summons, heaving themselves northwards, an invading army throwing its might against the one thing that had confined them for so long to this narrow passage of water: the island of Malaz…

The small island of Malaz and its city gave the great empire its name, but now it is little more than a sleepy backwater port. This night, however, a little different. This night the city is sometimes on edge and a hive of hurried, sometimes violent actibity; its citizens bustle about, barring doors and windows, avoiding any stranger’s stare. Because this night there is to be a convergence, the once-in-a-generation appearance of a Shadow Moon – an occasion that threatens the good people of Malaz with demon hounds and other darker things ...
It was also prophesied that this night would witness the return of Emperor Kellanved, and there are those prepared to do anything to prevent this happening. As factions within the greater Empire draw up battle lines over the imperial throne, the Shadow Moon summons a far more ancient and potent presence for an all-out assault upon the island. Witnessing these cataclysmic events are Kiska, a young girl who yearns to flee the constraints of the city, and Temper, a grizzled, battle-weary veteran who seeks simply to escape his past. But this night each is to play a part in a conflict that will not only determine the fate of Malaz City, but also that of the world beyond…
Drawing on events touched on in the prologue of Steven Erikson’s landmark fantasy Gardens of the Moon, Night of Knives is a momentous chapter in the unfolding story of the extraordinarily imagined world of Malaz.
‘Night of Knives marks the first installment of the shared world that we had both envisioned’ Steven Erikson

About The Author
Ian Cameron Esslemont was born in Winnipeg, Canada. He has a degree in Creative Writing, studied and worked as an archaeologist, travelled extensively in south East Asia, and lived in Thailand and Japan for several years. He now lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, with his wife and children and is currently working on his PhD in English Literature and writing a second novel set in the world of the Malaz, a world he co-created with his friend Steven Erikson. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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David Farland The Lair of Bones Pbk published March 2007 by Orbit at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1841495638

Book Four of the Runelords

The stars fall from heaven and the very earth trembles in pain. With Gaborn’s kingdom of Mystarria in ruins, four powerful kings march to claim its spoils, even as a vast army of reavers sallies forth from the underworld, intending to put an end to mankind.

In one last-ditch effort to heal the earth, the wizardborn Averan leads the Earth King. Gaborn Val Orden, far below the surface to the Lair of Bones, to face the leader of the reaver hordes. There Gaborn must confront an ancient evil - before the world is torn apart.
In this fourth volume of The Runelords series, David Farland continues to rewrite the boundaries of epic fantasy. There are only impossible decisions for his protagonists, and even the evil of the reavers may simply be a mask for the true horrors to come…
Praise For David Farland And The Runelords
`This series is the best I’ve read in ages’ Outland
`Offers epic sweep, much bloodstained action and interesting characters’ SFX
`Highly recommended’ Starlog
`That rare book that will remind you why you started reading fantasy in the first place’ amazon.com
`It’s a surefire winner with fans of Robert Jordan and David Eddings’ Booklist
About The Author
David Farland began writing at the age of seventeen, and in the years since has published over forty fantasy and science fiction novels for both adults and young adults.
Over the years, he has worked the typical writerly jobs – as a missionary, a prison guard, a meat cutter, an editor, a contest judge, a writing professor, a video game designer, and as a movie producer.
He currently lives in Saint George, Utah, with his wife and five children, where his hobbies include hiking, fishing, and working-out. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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David Farland The Sum of All Men Pbk published February 2007 by Orbit at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1841495603

Book One of the Runelords

It is the eve of Hostenfest and effigies of the Earth King fill the streets. In this festive season, the young Runelord, Prince Gaborn Val Orden, has come seeking the alliance of marriage that will safeguard his people’s future.

Far to the south - but not far enough - Raj Ahten, the Wolf Lord of Indhopal, moves through the land, his army destroying anything and anyone in his path. From the conquered he takes prizes, stealing their strength, their endurance, their wisdom, their most potent attributes. The Wolf Lord seems destined to bring all of humanity under his rule. Unless, after 2,000 years, the Earth King should rise again …

About The Author
David Farland began writing at the age of seventeen, and in the years since has published over forty fantasy and science fiction novels for both adults and young adults.
Over the years, he has worked the typical writerly jobs – as a missionary, a prison guard, a meat cutter, an editor, a contest judge, a writing professor, a video game designer, and as a movie producer.
He currently lives in Saint George, Utah, with his wife and five children, where his hobbies include hiking, fishing, and working-out. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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David Farland Brotherhood of the Wolf Pbk published February 2007 by Orbit at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1841495611

Book Two of the Runelords

Wolf Lord against Earth King: the epic struggle begun in The Sum of all Men continues.

Gaborn has managed to drive off Raj Ahten, but the Wolf Lord is far from defeated. Striking at far-flung cities and fortresses and killing dedicates, Ahten seeks to draw out the Earth King from his seat of power, in order to crush him. But Gaborn is about to discover that his enemy is far from the brutal conqueror he imagined him to be. It seems that Raj Ahten has a very good reason for what he does - indeed, they may well be on the same side.
Still, an alliance seems unlikely and as they weaken each other’s forces in battle, the armies of an ancient and implacable enemy issue forth from the very bowels of the Earth …

About The Author
David Farland began writing at the age of seventeen, and in the years since has published over forty fantasy and science fiction novels for both adults and young adults.
Over the years, he has worked the typical writerly jobs – as a missionary, a prison guard, a meat cutter, an editor, a contest judge, a writing professor, a video game designer, and as a movie producer.
He currently lives in Saint George, Utah, with his wife and five children, where his hobbies include hiking, fishing, and working-out. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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David Farland Wizardborn Pbk published March 2007 by Orbit at Ł7.99 ISBN: 184149562X

Book Three of the Runelords
Reeling from the battle at Carris, the young king Gaborn Val Orden finds that he has lost the powers which let him protect his people. As he struggles to rid his land of the inhuman reavers, he discovers that the creatures are more resourceful and terrifying than even he imagined. Desperate for any weapon that will aid him in this battle, all of his hopes come to rest upon the nine-year-old girl, Averan, the Wizardborn apprentice to the earth wizard Binnesman. Despite her fears, he must convince her to lead him in battle against the reaver lord of the underworld.
Meanwhile the ailing Wolf Lord, Raj Ahten, learns that a reaver horde is decimating his own homeland, there he confronts his enemy, and finds that he must choose to strip himself of all humanity or face ultimate defeat ....
David Farland has joined the ranks of epic fantasy’s giants within two books. With this third volume of The Runelords he continues the legend…
'The series is the best I've read in ages' Outland
‘The Runelords is a first-rate tale, an epic fantasy that more than delivers on its promise. Read it soon and treat yourself to an adventure you won’t forget’ Terry Brooks
`The author’s inventive approach to magic and his skill at depicting complex, believable characters make this tale a good choice for most fantasy collections’ Library Journal
About The Author
David Farland began writing at the age of seventeen, and in the years since has published over forty fantasy and science fiction novels for both adults and young adults.
Over the years, he has worked the typical writerly jobs – as a missionary, a prison guard, a meat cutter, an editor, a contest judge, a writing professor, a video game designer, and as a movie producer.
He currently lives in Saint George, Utah, with his wife and five children, where his hobbies include hiking, fishing, and working-out. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Celia Friedman Feast of Souls Pbk published April 2007 by Orbit at Ł12.99 ISBN: 184149531X

In the High Kingdom of Danton Aurelius, magisters from across the known world are gathering for an unusual meeting. The High King’s son is dying of an apparently incurable wasting disease, and he has charged them with providing an explanation and a cure.
There is a mystery here, but not the one the High King thinks: the magisters know the cause of the prince’s illness but they dare not reveal it for fear that it will expose the secret at the heart of their order. No, the mystery is not what is responsible, but who ...
Against a backdrop of glittering kingdoms and dark prophecies, a rogue magister and a dying prince will be forced to confront their destinies.
Feast of Souls is the beginning of a major new fantasy from the bestselling author of The Coldfire Trilogy
Praise for Celia Friedman
`Classic high fantasy’ Locus
‘Friedman deftly blends SF, Fantasy and Horror’ Starburst
`Hauntingly memorable protagonists, high drama, and vivid world-building ... A magnum opus of the imagination’ Library JournalThousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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